The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-11-11
AGRIcuL TuRAL.
Devoted to the Interests Of Farmers
and Stockmen.



Of grain horse has been fed while il
the stable, il he is taken out and i'm
mediately driven fast or worked hard
on full stomach he will scour nine
times out Of ten. When horse Is t6
be driven rapidly long distance or sci
10 work without previous preparation
his morning meal should be very lighi
and he should be watered before feed
ing and not again for nearly two hour
alter. He should have water and 8
light luncheon of oats in the middle oi
the forenoon and afternoon. and he
viii step along livelier all day and moi
he worn out when night comes. Il
does horse just as much good to have
drink Of water and light lunch
when at hard work as it does a man
and he win show it in his sprightly APP
pearance and lively gait. and when be
comes home 10 his regular meal be
viii not gulp down water By the barrel
nor gobble his food like rayenous
dog. A hungry horse is like hungry
man-weak and spiritless, and the man
who keeps him at hard work when he
is in such a condition ought 10 be
roundly fined or soundly trounced for
cruelty TO animals.
Deep fall or early winter plowine
should be followed BY another deep
plowing in the spring. This properly
done is the biggest half OF the work in
growing a good crop. Then let it be
remembered that deep pi0wing pre-
vents the soil on the undulating mn
lands from washing away. Millions oil
acres in the older states beyond the
Mississippi have been scratched and
scratched until their soil has washed
away and now constitutes the mud
bars at the mouth of the Mississippi.
Thus have their best uplands been de
stToyed.
4 writer claims that seed potatoes
are much more valuable il the sprouts
have not started until planting time
that the first sprouts that start viii
make more vigorous plants than any
subsequent ones He says that where
tweniy-four bushels of seed are to be
planted, the increase in the crop will
pay 30 per cent. on the cost of euita-
BILE building for cold storage. He takes
great pains to keep his seed potatoes
hard and sound as possible till the day
Of planting.
Turnips should not be dug until late
in autumn Like cabbage, they will
continue to grow after the first light
lrosts. They are capable OF enduring
a low temperature without injury.
They require q cool storage. When
placed in a warm cellar they become
eotkv, tough and unpaIatabIe for both
man aud beast If wintered in = pit
or cellar at a point just above freezing
they win be as crisp and as good in
the spring rs they were when dug.
Cabbage for winter use should be az
lowed to remain in the field until late
in the fall. We always had the best
results when they were gathered Just
before the ground freezes. They will
stand a fairly hard frost, but not s
severe one. At best, they are difficult
vegetable 10 ep through the winter.
III stored in cellar or root house, at a
temperature of about 36 degrees, they
will come out fresh aud sound in the
spring.
The farmer who is producing hay on
land that cannot be easily made tc
produce three tons to the acre, had
better devote it TO some other crop, and
drain and clear up land that will. II
is now well settled fact that farming
viii not pay when only small crops ars
grown. To skim over three acres fol
what ought TO grow on one, is an ex
penditure of time that rarely pays any
profit.
Glover is considered one of the besi
crops to renoyate the soil that can bs
sown, and it is usually profitable tf
grow it ON the farm, ii for no Other
purpose than to enrich and strengtheT
the soil.
Many good farmers keep horses il